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So successfully did they fulfil these conditions, and to such an extent did they increase the development of the colony, that it was deemed necessary to separate it from New Granada, and form an entirely new administration. The famous centre of the silver-mining region which supplied the Spanish Empire with bullion for three centuries.
Canada has, as a result, one of the greatest gold and silver-mining centres in the world. As if to keep pace with this unexpected development, Dr. Charles E. Saunders, of the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, announced his successful evolution of Marquis wheat. The Doctor had been experimenting with mid-European Red Fife and Red Calcutta ever since 1903.
"Did I," inquired Miss Belinda timidly, "did I understand you to say, my dear, that your father's business was in some way connected with silver-mining?" "It is silver-mining," was the response. "He owns some mines, you know" "Owns?" said Miss Belinda, much fluttered; "owns some silver-mines? He must be a very rich man, a very rich man. I declare, it quite takes my breath away."
About this time the silver-mining boom in Nevada began to ebb, and there was an exodus of men and women, mostly discouraged and "broke," to San Francisco. As Mrs. Osbourne had arranged to meet her husband in that city, she decided to join some of her friends in their removal to the coast, and began to make preparations for the long, hard journey.
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